A quick googling shows some sources claiming EVs are in general designed with a planned service life or around 10 years.
That's basically the same planned service life for ICE cars, which some sources claim it tends to be 12 years or 200k miles.
One source suggests battery capacity in EVs drop less than 2% per year on average.
These numbers seem to contradict you, but you show your data so that we can look into it.
I've gone through quite a lot of cars, but only one of them because it was broken and not worth fixing. The others were due to circumstances changing, like moving country, or having a larger family.
That's not what service life means. It's a design requirement that is used to drive probabilistic models that determine longevity targets for individual components, and also reflects a manufacturer's commitment to support a specific model.
Yes, your car is expected to still run after 12 years. Some cars also run after doing 200k miles.
> It is crazy to me that people are getting rid of them after only 12 years.
Some people replace cars way earlier than that, either because maintenance becomes too expensive due to severe use (see Uber drivers) or because they simply feel like it. There's a reason where car leasing is a successful business.
I'm repeating verbatim claims from car forums made by people claiming to be automotive engineers who worked for major car manufacturers.
I am talking about claims like this:
> I spent 25 years as an engineer at Rover Group and now work for it's evolved equivalent. Overall, vehicles are designed for a lifetime of 12 years or 120,000 miles and engineering standards are intended to reflect this. this is pretty much standard across the industry.
Tell me how I am reading that wrong.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60882953/average-age-us-c...
It's interesting that cars last pretty much exactly twice as long as the engineer claims they are designed to last.
The design goal is likely something like 95% of cars last 12 years, which means the 50% is much higher than 12.
You seem to be confused. I'm talking about planned service life, whereas you're talking about "misreading reports" that cite car age statistics. Please understand they are not the same thing.